A technicolour account of the sabotage suggests how fast the world has changed.

De neerslag die komende week verwacht wordt, is onvoldoende voor „het verlichten van de droogte-effecten”. Dat schrijft Rijkswaterstaat dinsdag in de wekelijkse droogtemonitor.

Tijdens werkzaamheden dinsdagochtend brak brand uit in een leegstaand woon- en werkgebouw in de Belgische hoofdstad. De brand leek onder controle te zijn gebracht, maar spreidde zich uit naar de liftschachten waar werklui bezig waren.

De bestuurder is in juridische zin niet schuldig aan het ongeval in de zomer van 2020 waarbij de 14-jarige Tamar omkwam, aldus de rechtbank. Hij had gezien de omstandigheden niet ‘redelijkerwijs’ kunnen vermoeden dat hij een persoon had aangereden.

Cat-Scan.com is one of the strangest sites I've seen in some time. I have no idea how these people got their cats wedged into their scanners, or why.

The United States manufactured about 294,000 aircraft for WWII, and once peace was assured the military found itself with a huge surplus of aircraft. Within a year of the end of the war, about 34,000 airplanes had been moved to 30 sales-storage depots, or "aircraft boneyards".

Boneyards, previously

MUSICAL HOLDOUTS is a 1975 documentary featuring musical cultures that remain distinct from the "melting pot" of mainstream American popular music. Without voiceover narration, it primarily showcases the musicians themselves with some interspersed interviews.

The first segment features Gullah Geechee clapping games/songs. Also included are bluegrass banjos, cowboy ballads, and singing by members of several tribes including Kaiwa, Pawnee, Wichita, Comanche, and Cheyenne people. The film closes out with some lovely old time and folk music by itinerant musicians. There's more information here on the incredible Folkstreams website. All of these musical cultures still exist in one form or another. This a testament both to the resilience of ordinary, often marginalized people, and evidence of the beautiful durability of music in all its forms. Music is infinite.

IBM shares plunged after the company warned that Q2 revenue and earnings would miss expectations, blaming customers' sudden shift in spending toward AI hardware instead of software services. However, CEO Arvind Krishna did not place all the blame on IBM's customers. The CEO also said it "faltered" by failing to "anticipate the magnitude of the capex reprioritization."

"These conditions require our teams to execute perfectly, and this quarter we faltered. We did not adapt and move quickly enough, and numerous large deals failed to close on the timelines we expected, driving the majority of our shortfall." Fast Company reports: In the preliminary report, IBM said that for its second quarter of fiscal 2026, it expects revenue of $17.2 billion, which is up 1%. It also said it expects a Non-GAAP Diluted Earnings Per Share (EPS) of $2.93, up 5%. However, as noted by CNBC, these preliminary results are below what analysts were expecting, which was $17.86 billion in revenue, and an EPS of $3.01, according to FactSet data.

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New York has become the first U.S. state to impose a moratorium on large new data centers, pausing construction for one year over concerns that AI-driven data center growth is raising utility bills, straining water supplies, and burdening communities. "As data center development threatens to hike up utility bills, deplete our natural resources, and create uncertainty for New Yorkers, it's my responsibility to take action and lead," said New York Governor Kathy Hochul. She will also pursue legislation to repeal sales tax exemptions for large data centers, Hochul added. Reuters reports: The construction ban will apply to data centers that use 50 megawatts or more of power, officials in the governor's office said. During the moratorium, the state's Department of Environmental Conservation will not issue any discretionary permits not already deemed complete, the governor's office said. Instead, Hochul directed state officials to develop a Generic Environmental Impact Statement to ensure that new data centers coming online are held to "consistent standards," as well as examine the potential environmental impacts of the construction and operation of data centers in the state. The ban will be lifted once the state finalizes those standards, according to Hochul's office.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: StubHub and its CEO, Eric Baker, have been hit with a proposed $5-million class-action lawsuit in the United States over the company's ties to large-scale scalpers -- connections reported by CBC News last week. The suit, filed Monday by New York ticket buyer Louis Sanquini, alleges deceptive practices and fraudulent misrepresentation over StubHub's promoting itself as a "marketplace for fans to buy and sell tickets." The online ticket resale giant has faced a storm of customer complaints after cancelling thousands of World Cup tickets. The company has repeatedly said it is simply a technology platform that does not buy, sell or possess tickets. However, CBC reported last week that Baker disclosed in recent filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that he runs Andro Capital, a hedge fund that engages in large-scale resale of millions of dollars' worth of sports and concert tickets on the StubHub resale platform.

Sanquini filed the proposed class action in the Southern District of New York, arguing consumers were kept in the dark and that he believed StubHub was a "neutral" marketplace. Lead counsel Kevin Steinberg told CBC News in an emailed statement that "consumers deserve honesty and transparency." A CBC investigation found that the CEO of online ticket reseller StubHub owns and manages a hedge fund that scalps millions of dollars of its own tickets. "While what StubHub is alleged to have engaged in and perpetrated upon millions of patrons is unfathomable, this case is about transparency and consumer trust. If companies make representations to the public, consumers are entitled to expect that those representations are complete and accurate," he said.

The claim reads: "Defendants' failure to disclose this conflict of interest, while affirmatively marketing StubHub as a fan-to-fan marketplace, deceived Plaintiff and the Class and caused them to pay prices, and accept terms, they would not have accepted had the truth been known." Sanquini argues that had he known StubHub's CEO held a financial interest and that the company was helping finance professional resellers, he would never have used the resale site to buy tickets to see rock band Kiss in 2023 or to attend a New York Red Bulls-New York City FC Major League Soccer match in 2024.

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In a world that never stops moving, street photography can remind us to to look closer at the moments in between the rush. Waiting rooms, bus stops, doorways, pauses, any moment when street photographers focus on those moments when time seems to stop. This edition of In Frame with Flickr, our street photography series, is dedicated to those quiet transitional moments. Join us for some candid contemplation.

Untitled by Alek S.

outside by Michael Teuber

on reading by Alexandre Dulaunoy

Pure Happiness by Dimitar L. Panayotov

Untitled by Alex DMT

Ladies by schoene.pixel

Sidebench-ers by Thomas Cizauskas

sunk by Michael Teuber

Island of calm byPer Gosche

Enjoying the view by Robert Clinton

Mo peace by Ian Sane

Sun bath by Shawn Harquail

Wave Rider by Chris

If you enjoyed the break in the middle of your day to slow things down a bit, find some more inspiring street and documentary photography in last month’s Explore Takeover. See you next time!

In raspi-config on Debian 13.6, when I enable the overlay file system it... does not. I found some breadcrumbs here but installing the linked eeprom did not fix it, and anyway that was a year ago and I have rpi-eeprom 28.28-1.

How make go?

/run/initramfs/overlayroot.log: builtin set cfgdisk='disabled' Unable to find driver/module. searched: overlay overlayfs [failure]: Unable to find a driver. searched: overlay overlayfs

Adding "initramfs initramfs8 followkernel" to the end of config.txt did nothing.

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Aware that AI models exhibit different values in different languages, Anthropic researchers have taken steps to map out how Claude expresses itself in different languages. The results identify four key axes that capture 15 percent of the variation in the values Anthropic says Claude expresses across different languages: Deference vs. Caution; Warmth vs. Rigor; Depth vs. Brevity; and Candor vs. Execution. Anthropic's researchers state, "how Claude responds inevitably reflects certain values." But they append a footnote that makes clear the model's statistical word predictions do not reflect some internal understanding of values. "We define values as normative considerations, such as honesty or caution, that are stated or demonstrated in Claude’s responses," the footnote explains. "When we refer to the values expressed by Claude, we refer to the values reflected by Claude’s behavior and outputs. We do not imply that Claude intrinsically holds values." In other words, just because Claude emits words associated with deference, that's not an assertion of any particular mental model of the world nor of any expression of actual internalized respect. That's a point deserving of more prominent treatment than a footnote, given Anthropic's history of leaning into anthropomorphism for marketing purposes. But setting aside how a term like "values" muddies the boundaries between human intelligence and LLM-based vector math word prediction, Anthropic's boffins have nonetheless illuminated some intriguing word output differences that follow from how large language models are affected by language. Variations in model word emission style have previously been observed across different models. Anthropic's authors note that Sonnet 4.6 and Opus 4.7 respond in ways that people interpret as more deferential or more precise. "Sonnet 4.6 leans toward expressing more deference to the user and emotional warmth while Opus 4.7 leans toward expressing a focus on accuracy and precision as well as guarding against misuse," they state. Such differences may reflect different training data or model fine-tuning. But it's clear that the language used to address a model – not to mention the training data based on that language – helps shape model responses in that language. "When Claude speaks in English, it emphasizes different values than when it speaks in Portuguese, Indonesian, or Chinese," company researchers said in a blog post. "The largest variation is in the Warmth vs. Rigor axis, with Claude leaning toward expressing warmth-related values most in Arabic and Hindi and rigor-related values most in English and Russian." On the Candor vs. Execution axis, speak Dutch if you want humility and an honest appraisal of potential shortcomings. And speak Indonesian if you want a polished, confident answer. On the Depth vs. Brevity axis, speak Arabic for a terse response and English for nuance and depth. Anthropic’s researchers say they're not sure yet what properties in model training data affect these linguistic differences, but they suggest the matter deserves further exploration because it has important implications for how people use LLMs. "To take one example: two people asking for feedback on the same business plan, one in Hindi and one in Russian, may come away with different impressions of its quality because Claude expressed different values in how it framed its assessment," they observe. It may also be that different languages have different usage and security implications. Brevity, for example, is correlated with cost – fewer words mean lower token expenditure. The Claude Opus 4.7 system card [PDF] notes that the rate at which the model refuses benign requests is substantially lower in English than in other languages. And other researchers have established that jailbreaking works better in some languages than others. So if a model is deferential in a particular language, is that language a better choice for soliciting exploit development or other potentially policy-violating queries? Anthropic says that being able to measure this sort of variation is a prerequisite for deciding the extent to which language differences are desirable and appropriate. ®

New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Tuesday paused incomplete state environmental permit applications for large datacenters while officials work out new rules, a process expected to take up to a year. The order makes New York the first state to enact such a moratorium amid growing concerns over AI datacenters' impact on utility rates and public health. “New York has always been at the forefront of innovation and change but we’ve also always guaranteed that New Yorkers benefit. As data center development threatens to hike up utility bills, deplete our natural resources, and create uncertainty for New Yorkers, it’s my responsibility to take action and lead,” Hochul said in a canned statement. The order specifically targets large hyperscale datacenters capable of consuming at least 50 MW, subject to exemptions for manufacturing, research, education, and medical facilities. Prior to the AI boom, 50 megawatts would have been considered a large cloud campus. While datacenter campuses now often demand gigawatts of power, the moratorium doesn't preclude all AI bit barns. Fifty megawatts is still enough power for roughly 20,000-30,000 modern GPUs. The moratorium won’t last and is instead aimed at providing state officials time to develop and enact rules designed to ensure large-scale buildouts don't hurt New Yorkers. The portable generator units used while bit barn builders wait for grid connections and improvements have come under fire due to their impact on air quality. Elon Musk's Colossus 2 DC is now facing legal challenges over alleged Clean Air Act violations tied to the use of these generators. Over the next year, the executive order directs New York's Department of Public Service (DPS) to develop a generic environmental impact statement (GEIS). Officials will use this to evaluate proposed datacenter projects' environmental, public health, and grid impacts. The order directs the state's economic development agency, Empire State Development, to develop a framework to help local communities negotiate benefits like infrastructure improvements or financial support for community programs in exchange for letting bit barns in their backyards. Finally, DPS will consider establishing a fund that datacenter operators may be required to pay into, including a possible insurance pool to protect ratepayers from stranded grid costs tied to projects that are delayed, scaled back, or never materialize. The effect of datacenters on utility bills has become a national issue as several US states launched an inquiry into why, despite claims to the contrary, ratepayers are still paying more. US President Donald Trump isn’t keen on AI infrastructure making life more expensive for voters either — at least not any more than his infatuation with tariffs and the US war with Iran already have. In January, the president demanded Big Tech take responsibility for the power their datacenters consume. Alongside the moratorium, Hochul has promised legislation to end sales tax exemptions for datacenter. New York isn't the first to pursue a moratorium on new datacenters. Earlier this year, Maine became the first to pass a statewide moratorium on new bit barns, only for the measure to be vetoed by Governor Janet Mills. Going forward, New York's moratorium may now serve as a blueprint for other states to push back against the spread of datacenters. Having said that, capping datacenter campuses at 50 megawatts may not stop developers from pursuing multiple smaller sites across the state. While massive datacenters are needed to train frontier models, once they have been trained, those models can be served by much smaller facilities. There is also the potential for multiple smaller, but physically disparate datacenters to be stitched together using high speed, low latency interconnects like Nvidia’s Spectrum-XGS switches. These devices are designed exactly for this purpose. ®

In Yorùbá culture, it’s said that more than 600 years ago, a hunter discovered a lush grove in southwestern Nigeria carved by a rushing river. His community had experienced drought and eagerly moved to the region, which they quickly learned was under the rule of the goddess of rivers and fertility, Ọ̀ṣun. In exchange for protection and prosperity, the people promised to celebrate the deity, and this pact grounds what’s now known as the Ọṣun-Òṣogbo Sacred Grove.

A UNESCO World Heritage site spanning 190 acres, the spiritual sanctuary has long been revered by the Yorùbá people, and in the mid-20th century, a group of artists revitalized the landscape by erecting large-scale sculptures in honor of its namesake. Dubbed the New Sacred Art Movement, the efforts are the subject of a short documentary released by The Met that visits the grove and highlights some of the artists who’ve carved totems, shaped enormous creatures from clay and mud, and established a vibrant art environment to be passed down through generations.

Directed by Sosena Solomon, the film is part of The Met’s series devoted to Africa’s cultural landmarks, made in collaboration with the World Monuments Fund. It highlights some of the makers creating and repairing works, including Kasali Akangbe Ogun, who helped lead the New Sacred Art Movement alongside Austrian-Nigerian artist Susanne Wenger and Chief Adebisi Akanji in the 1960s. Today, he continues to carve totemic shrines and share his craft with his children.

While many similar sites fell into disrepair, the artists who worked in the grove helped to safeguard its sacredness as they built an expansive art environment visualizing various deities. An annual festival and pilgrimages attract visitors each year, and as generations pass, artists and caretakers are working to both preserve what’s been built and also pass down knowledge to ensure the space’s survival. “What makes Ọṣun-Òṣogbo such a special place is,” says Chief Nike Davies-Okundaye, “this is a living story.”

Ọṣun-Òṣogbo Sacred Grove is one of 13 cultural sites The Met visited across the continent, and you can find more on YouTube. You might also enjoy this book surveying more than 400 spiritual environments around the world.

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Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

handwritten on slide, “Pennsylvania, Marianne, Lois with Dogie"

Mr Mikage (ミスター御影） posted a photo:

Misschien zit u nu wel in Spanje (aan de Costa). Of in Zuid-Frankrijk (aan de Côte). Voelt u het dan, hoe dichtbij het ineens allemaal komt? Nee niet die bosbranden, DE FINALE! Die komt er nu, na ongeveer om en nabij plusminus een maand voetballen, nu echt aan. Maar eerst nog even de halve finale. Kylian Mbappé trekt met zijn Napoleontische oorlog rap over de trottoirs van dit wereldkampioenschap en bestormde al heel wat Bastilles, alleen vindt hij nu voor het eerst een ware matador op zijn pad: Lamine Yamal. En weet u, dat is een confrontatie waar je U tegen zegt. Dé wedstrijd voor dé kans op de Coupe du Monde dan wel de Copa del Mundo. Naderhand zal Deschamps dan wel De la Fuente zeggen: de halve finale was de finale. Stijlloze voorspelling voor deze toppot: 3-2 voor Mbappé en zijn garçonnnetjes. Laat ons nu genieten, het maakt helemaal geen mallemère uit of u nou van Frans bier (bleh) of van Spaans bier (bleh) of van Franse kaas (yum) of van Spaanse worst (yum) houdt, vanavond pleuren we alles bij elkaar op een heerlijke plateau met buikbeugel en gaan we lekker kijken naar een schitterende halve finale op het WK Voetbal!
Update - Nog een beeeetje aftasten de eerste quatorze minuten hè.
Update - HIJ GEEFT EEN PENALTY. Domme Digne geeft Yamal een schop onder z'n hol.
Update - OOOOOOOOOYARZABALBALBALBAL knalt m binnen! 0-1 Spanje. Wel goed voor de wedstrijd dat Spanje eerst scoort. 
Update - Cervezatijd.
Update - RUST

Frankrijk?

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Of Spanje?

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Maar 't mag natuurlijk ook gaan over Ali B of Trump of padel!

If you like graffiti, 50s advertising characters, stencils, and you don’t like the war… you’ll LOVE “Mr. Spray”!

This Mr. Spray letterpress is an image I originally created during the Iraq war, and unfortunately, not much has changed except one letter (it’s Iran now). “Make Art Not War” is a message I always want to promote along with an endorsement of expressing your beliefs by any means necessary! The streets and elsewhere are begging for you to exercise your First Amendment rights!
-Shepard

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